Does the Internet have Seasonal Trends?
Everyone who Works on the Internet follows statistics. There are lots of ways and many reasons for following certain trends for a Website or Blog. These trends can be broken down into days, and in some cases by the hour.
There seems to be certain days of the week that are better for a particular topic, niche or product. You may find that your product or subject gets more pageviews from Monday through Friday or over the weekend. Trends can also change from week to week, month to month or season to season.
Keeping up with trends on the Internet is, to say the least, difficult. At present I have 2 different statistics counters on my main sites. With them I have noticed that my readership is shifting.
During this past winter, the best days for visitors were from Wednesday through Saturday. I could attribute this at least in part to the weather (more people at home). People would come home from work, may be fed up with their job and look for something they could do from home and be self-employed.
Once the weather changed and people started doing more outside, viewership changed more towards mid-week. People more than likely started their gardens and tending to outside activities like mowing the lawn on weekends.
Now that we are in mid-summer (in the U.S.) family activities and vacations come into play. There is no time to waste looking for Work on the Internet, there is fun to be had. People don’t spend as much time on the computer, there are better things to do.
Since I have only been Working at Home on the Internet for 9 months, I have yet to see how the seasons play out. But, if the trend follows the logical path, visitors, readership and pageviews should start to pick up within a month or so. Once the weather breaks again, and we enter autum, people should start spending more time inside and getting on the computer more often.
I’m hoping that is the case. Only time will tell. I may be off a little with the reasoning, but the Trend seems Apparent.
Possibly I made the change-over to my Own Domain at the right time, without even knowing there was a season for change.
Do you think there is a seasonal difference on the Internet? Have you noticed a seasonal change with your site?
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